Remember Kent Hovind? He was probably the most famous and prolific of all the travelling creationists, going from county to county saying silly shit like "Noah's flood really happened", and "dinosaurs and man lived together in harmony" before Adam and Eve eventually pissed off God. In 2007 he was thrown in jail for various tax offenses, and he claimed his money belonged to God, not the government. Since his ...

If you aren't from down under, odds are you've never heard of Mary MacKillop, also known as Saint Mary of the Cross. A few days ago the Vatican canonized her, making Mary the first Australian to get this "demi-god" status. In order to receive that canonization, Mary had to have two miracles attributed to her, and as you've probably guessed by now, the supposed miracles were people being "cured" of cancer. I ...

I wonder how I would react to this video if I was a believer. Here is direct scientific evidence the brain itself creates the intense religious feeling often described by the faithful. Do they somehow turn it around and think this must somehow prove their anthropomorphic deity is real? Do they ignore the fact a couple well placed magnets are all you need to recreate it? I tell you, science is a killjoy when ...

A gay couple in the North West Territories, the frozen butthole of Canada, was recently awarded $13,000 in a ruling involving a landlord who tried to evict them, simply because they were gay. The landlord contended the legal arrangement he made with the couple was null since he genuinely feared God would smite him. Naturally, he quoted the King James Bible as proof God hates sodomites, but the arbitrator in ...

The guys over at the University of North Carolina Greensboro just finished having a debate on whether the "Christian God exists", and it's available online if you want to watch this. Needless to say their opponents get a nice trouncing. You can check out the rest of the debate here. ...

We'll be recording a podcast tonight, and we'll be recording another segment of our "Ask God" segment. So if you have any questions for the big bearded deity in the sky, hurry up and ask them before 8pm tonight, or you'll miss your chance to have the answers you were looking for! ...

We're recording another Good Atheist podcast tonight and once again we'll have God on the show to answer a few questions. Submit yours in the comments section below and we'll pick the best three to ask Him. ...

The San Francisco Chronicle's website has a hilarious column detailing 19 reasons why God allowed Touchdown Jesus to burn last week. Here's some of my favorites: 6) The real Jesus of historical record, being a grizzled, husky, musky, dark-skinned Jew with short, curly black hair who rarely showered and smelled of goat droppings and dried sweat, and who had a thing for screaming random prophesies in the stre ...

Another day, another case where people are trying to use their religious beliefs as a legal shield for their bigotry: The owners of a B.C. bed and breakfast will argue at a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing in Kelowna on Wednesday that their right to freedom of religion permitted them to turn away a homosexual couple. According to the complaint filed with the tribunal, the gay couple, Shaun Eadie and Brian ...